[Greens-Media] Support Volunteer Firefighters Too!

[Franks, Office]

May 6, 2013

ALERT: Support Volunteer Firefighters Too! Press Conference for Firefighters' Compensation Bill

CFS Executive Director Sonia St Alban will today pay tribute to the memory of a Country Fire Service volunteer, John Ames, who last year lost his battle with oesophageal cancer.
At a briefing for MPs today, Ms St Alban will join with other representatives from the Country Fire Service Volunteers Association (CFSVA) and Volunteering SA to endorse a Greens' compensation Bill to protect both career and volunteer firefighters who contract one of 12 specified cancers linked with their work.

Greens' Emergency Services and Volunteers spokesperson, Tammy Franks MLC, who will bring her Bill to a vote in the Upper House next week (on May 15), says the legislation differs from the Government's November announcement to protect paid firefighters and not South Australia's 13,500 CFS volunteers.

WHAT:   Media Opportunity prior to an official briefing with MPs about the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation (Protection for Firefighters) Amendment Bill

WHERE: Balcony Room, Parliament House, North Terrace
(Please note that this media opportunity will shortly follow the 12.30pm conclusion of Budget & Finance Committee in the Plaza Room, adjacent)

WHEN: 12.45pm today (Monday, May 6)
WHO:   Speakers from the CFS Volunteers Association, Volunteering SA and the Greens including:
-              Sonia St Alban, CFS Volunteers Association Executive Director
-              Roger Flavell, CFS Volunteers Association President
-              Jeff Clark, CFS Volunteers Association Vice President
-              Evelyn O'Loughlin, Volunteering SA & NT CEO
-              Tammy Franks MLC, Greens' Emergency Services and Volunteers spokesperson
Media are welcome to stay for the briefing itself, commencing at 1pm, directly following the press conference.

To arrange media comment, or for further background information about the Bill, please contact Lauren Zwaans on 0457 549 938

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